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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Looking at what sight always gives the unnamed narrator a "small thrill" (107)?
(a) A sunrise.
(b) The onset of nighttime.
(c) Manhattan's skyline.
(d) The small of a woman's back.

2. What does the unnamed narrator describe in his comments at Columbia's School of Arts as the "shadow language to Reagan's official narrative processing of the national tragedy" (114)?
(a) Iran Contra jokes.
(b) Challenger jokes.
(c) Oklahoma City bombing jokes.
(d) My Lai jokes.

3. The distinguished female author tells the unnamed narrator that when she was in the first grade, she openly laughed when given the news that which person had died?
(a) Her teacher's daughter.
(b) Her teacher.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her teacher's son.

4. On what floor of the hospital is the fertility office, where the unnamed narrator is scheduled to give a semen sample?
(a) 6th.
(b) 4th.
(c) 7th.
(d) 2nd.

5. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?
(a) Whole Foods.
(b) Alpha Beta.
(c) Von's.
(d) Kroger.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator brings a book by which poet to the Mt. Sinai Hospital when he visits Bernard in Part One?

2. Noor tells the unnamed narrator that her late father had shared a "strong sense" of what kind of "identity" (99) with her?

3. In what way are Sharon and Jon, two of the unnamed narrator's friends, acquainted?

4. The unnamed narrator states in Part Three that he had been talking about his "performance anxiety with Jon and Sharon and Alena" (89) for how many weeks prior to his appointment to give a semen sample?

5. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?

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